On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:03 PM, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
IANAL: In conventional IRL law you usually do not talk about rights.
I don't know where you live, but that's definitely *not* the case in, say, the United States. In the United States, rights are a very important part of law. In fact, the United States was founded based upon the philosophical foundation that the *purpose* of law is to protect people's rights. That's why the US Constitution has a "Bill of Rights" that state, in no uncertain terms, that people have certain rights that the government may not infringe upon. Most cases that make it to the Supreme Court are concerned with what rights people have and how those rights conflict or interact.